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complicately

complicately adverb: in a complex manner.

Adverb

complicately (comparative more complicately, superlative most complicately)

  1. (archaic) In a complex manner.
    • Who first created the great world, a work / Of deep construction, complicately wrought1790, James Hurdis, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. in a complicate (entwined) way

Forms of complicately

comparativemore complicately
superlativemost complicately

Origin of complicately

From complicate + -ly.

Questions about complicately

What does complicately mean?
Complicately means in a complex manner.
What part of speech is complicately?
Complicately is an adverb.

Words near complicately in the dictionary

  1. complicateder
  2. complicatedest
  3. complicatedly
  4. complicatedness
  5. complicatednesses
  6. complicately
  7. complicateness
  8. complicates
  9. complicatic acid
  10. complicating
  11. complication

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